Game Overview: 10 Down, or Getting Racked Over Tea

Designer Odd Hackwelder seems to have a pattern for how he names games: 8 the Liar, M80, and Monster Deck 55. Okay, not all of his games fit this pattern — e.g., Ninja Bowling and counterfeit — but his designs do include a lot of "cards with numbers", with 10 Down from CSE Games being the latest such release.

This review copy arrived at my doorstep at just the right time as several of my holiday visitors comprised the perfect audience for this sequence-creating card game that felt just right on a café table surrounded by drinks and snacks...

Game Overview: The Game on Fire, or Playing Cards Faster

Jan 01, 2016

When I first heard about Steffen Benndorf's The Game (a.k.a. The Game: Spiel...so lange du kannst!, a.k.a. the game that's easier to find when you search for its subtitle rather than its main...

Spiel 2015 XXVI: Rising 5, Estoril 1942, I Love Portugal, Ice Cream, Ten Cats, and Generalship

Dec 29, 2015

• Time for another round-up of game preview videos recorded at Spiel 2015, starting with Rising 5, a Mastermind-style game from Gary Kim and Evan Song that layers special powers onto the co-op...

Spiel 2015 XXV: Fabulous Beasts, Safe Breaker, Heckmeck Extrawurm, Nitro Glyxerol, and Beasty Bar: New Beasts in Town

Dec 28, 2015

• When I first learned about Fabulous Beasts from George Buckenham and Alex Fleetwood, I wasn't sure whether it should be added to the BGG database, shunted to VideoGameGeek, included on both...

Spiel 2015 XXIV: Peloponnes Card Game, Fruit Mix, Giraffometer, Splash! and The Producer: 1940-1944

Dec 27, 2015

• Bernd Eisenstein's well-regarded Peloponnes board game debuted in 2009, and he's released mini-expansions for the game through his Irongames brand roughly once a year since then. Now...

Spiel 2015 XXIII: Bombyx Game Previews — Histrio and Zany Penguins

Dec 26, 2015

• The year 2015 is coming to a close, and I regret to report that I still haven't posted everything that BGG recorded at Spiel 2015 in October. For heaven's sake, Eric, what's your...